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Software upgrades aim to tie VARs to vendor and to each other

Collaborative capabilities are a common denominator across the latest set of software upgrades made last week by design software giant Autodesk. They are also core to the philosophy that ties Autodesk resellers, many of which have chosen to be largely exclusive to its products, both to the vendor and to each other.

With Convergence 2006 due to kick off this weekend in Dallas, Microsoft took the wraps off Solution Finder, a Web tool designed to help customers find appropriate VARs and integrators, depending on their needs.

Hosted SharePoint infrastructure ideal for serving very small businesses, company says

Oracle’s applications sales are going just swimmingly, according to the company's brain trust. The software vendor said license revenue for applications jumped 77 percent, to $269 million, in its fiscal third quarter.

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates sheds light on the company's Office strategy, touching on points such as a pumped-up Office SharePoint Serve, a new server-based version of Excel, blogging and enterprise data search.

Xerox has developed a significant new version of its document-management software, providing a single database for both transaction-oriented business processes and individual and group content management